U.S. patent application number 10/937268 was filed with the patent office on 2006-03-16 for structure of cd box.
Invention is credited to Sheng-Yuan Chen.
Application Number | 20060054519 10/937268 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 36032737 |
Filed Date | 2006-03-16 |
United States Patent
Application |
20060054519 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Chen; Sheng-Yuan |
March 16, 2006 |
STRUCTURE OF CD BOX
Abstract
A CD box, wherein a connecting plate between two body parts
forms a pair of engaging hooks, one end of each engaging hook is
connected to the connecting plate to form a connecting end, and the
other end forms an open tailing end, so that round holes on thin CD
sleeves can be slipped over the engaging hook from the open tailing
end. The open tailing ends extend down over the upper surface of
the connecting plate, so that the thin CD sleeves with round holes
are not subjected to sliding out of the open tailing ends.
Inventors: |
Chen; Sheng-Yuan; (Taipei,
TW) |
Correspondence
Address: |
BRUCE H. TROXELL
SUITE 1404
5205 LEESBURG PIKE
FALLS CHURCH
VA
22041
US
|
Family ID: |
36032737 |
Appl. No.: |
10/937268 |
Filed: |
September 10, 2004 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
206/308.1 ;
206/311; 402/24; G9B/33.01; G9B/33.014 |
Current CPC
Class: |
G11B 33/0422 20130101;
G11B 33/0444 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
206/308.1 ;
206/311; 402/024 |
International
Class: |
B65D 85/30 20060101
B65D085/30; B42F 13/00 20060101 B42F013/00 |
Claims
1-5. (canceled)
6. A CD box for removably connecting a plurality of thin CD sleeves
receiving CDs, the CD box comprising: a) a connecting plate being
an elongated body and having two elongated slots; b) first and
second body parts being movable between open and closed positions,
each of the first and second body parts having one wall connected
to one of two opposing lateral wall of the connecting plate and
three walls, each of the three walls having a stepped wall; and c)
two U-shaped engaging hooks located on the connecting plate, each
of the two U-shaped engaging hooks aligning with one of the two
elongated slots and having: i) a connecting end fixedly connected
to the connecting plate; and ii) an open tailing end protruding
into one of the two elongated slots and being spaced apart from the
connecting plate, wherein each of the two U-shaped engaging hooks
is selectively inserted into one of a plurality of rounds holes of
each of the plurality of thin CD sleeves by positioning each of the
plurality of thin CD sleeves between the open tailing end and the
connecting plate, the connecting plate and the two U-shaped
engaging hooks are integrally formed, wherein the open tailing end
of each of the two U-shaped engaging hooks having a bottom beveled
surface, an upper most end of each bottom beveled surface is
located adjacent to a top of one of the two elongated slots,
wherein an upper most end of the bottom beveled surface is located
above an upper surface of the connecting plate.
7-8. (canceled)
9. The CD box according to claim 6, wherein the open tailing end of
each of the two U-shaped engaging hooks protrudes into one of the
two elongated slots a distance of 1/2 a thickness of the connecting
plate.
10. The CD box according to claim 6, wherein the connecting plate
has two blocks, one of the two blocks is located on each of two
opposing ends of the connecting plate.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] The present invention is related to a CD box, and especially
to a CD box able to mount therein multiple thin CD sleeves with
engaging hooks.
[0003] 2. Description of the Prior Art
[0004] CDs are media loading with data, and are extremely widely
used, for instance, as CDs, VCDs and DVDs, or as CDs loaded with
spare data or programs. The mode of storing of CDs often seen is to
use non-woven fabric to make thin sleeves for receiving CDs, the
thin sleeves are provided on their edges with round holes; multiple
thin sleeves can be received in a CD box.
[0005] For example, the prior art U.S. Pat. No. 6,679,376 titled
"MD, CD and magnetic disk box structure" disclosed a box structure
for receiving CDs. In this patent, a middle connecting plate is
connected on two sides thereof with a first and a second box that
are closable and openable, the middle connecting plate is further
mounted thereon a sheet clip for clamping thin CD sleeves. Such a
device can get a function of mounting multiple thin CD sleeves,
however, by virtue that the sheet clip is additionally assembled on
the boxes, it will largely increase the cost of production of the
CD box and working hours for assembling, this is not be beneficial
to sale. Particularly, operation of the sheet clip includes
engaging of the round holes on a foldable plate with a snap member;
the foldable plate can only be engaged after the thin CD sleeves
are mounted on the snap member, this is an operation design quite
wasting time; if the box structure is used by a proprietor of a VCD
or DVD leasing store, this is a quite inconvenient design.
[0006] For objects to get rid of inconvenience of operation and to
lower the cost of a CD box, FIG. 1 shows a kind of designing of a
CD box. The entire structure of the CD box is formed by integrally
injection shaping; a middle connecting plate 91 is provided thereon
with engaging hooks 92. Referring to FIG. 2, the engaging hooks 92
each has a connecting end 921 integrally connecting with the middle
connecting plate 91, and has an open tailing end 922. The middle
connecting plate 91 is provided with slots 93 at the positions in
corresponding to those of the engaging hooks 92. The open tailing
ends 922 of the engaging hooks 92 are located at the positions
above the slots 93 to form opened areas.
[0007] Therefore, each thin CD sleeve 20 is provided on a lateral
edge with round holes 21 that can be slipped over the engaging
hooks 92 from the open tailing ends 922 and can be hooked by the
engaging hooks 92. By virtue that the open tailing ends 922 of the
engaging hooks 92 are higher than the upper surface of the middle
connecting plate 91, the top and the bottom surfaces of the
engaging hooks 92 must be provided with protrusions 94 having the
function of stopping to make the levels of the round holes 21 of
the thin CD sleeves 20 higher, thus the round holes 21 can be kept
in the engaging hooks 92 in order to prevent the thin CD sleeves 20
from sliding out of the engaging hooks 92, and an object of
preventing sliding out is acquired. By providing the protrusions
94, a user must bend the thin CD sleeves 20 to make them slip over
the engaging hooks 92 smoothly; this will render the action of
slipping the thin CD sleeves 20 over the engaging hooks 92 less
easy, and improvement is required.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0008] The primary object of the present invention is to provide a
CD box, wherein a connecting plate between two body parts forms a
pair of engaging hooks, one end of each engaging hook is connected
to the connecting plate to form a connecting end, and the other end
forms an open tailing end, so that round holes on thin CD sleeves
can be slipped over the engaging hook from the open tailing end.
The open tailing ends extend down over the upper surface of the
connecting plate, so that the thin CD sleeves with round holes are
not subjected to sliding out of the open tailing ends.
[0009] Another object of the present invention is to provide a CD
box, wherein an outer lateral side of the open tailing end of each
engaging hook is formed to have a bevel surface, the uppermost
position of the bevel surface is at about the upper surface of the
connecting plate, and is most preferably higher than the upper
surface, in order that the round holes on the thin CD sleeves can
be slipped over the engaging hooks directly.
[0010] A further object of the present invention is to provide a CD
box, wherein the lowermost position of each engaging hook is at
about 1/2 height of the connecting plate, so that the thin CD
sleeves can be moved out conveniently.
[0011] The present invention will be apparent in the structural
features and the function of operation thereof after reading the
detailed description of the preferred embodiment in reference to
the accompanying drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0012] FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a conventional CD
box;
[0013] FIG. 2 is a sectional side view showing an engaging hook of
the conventional CD box;
[0014] FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a CD box of the present
invention, wherein a first and a second body part are oppositely
opened up;
[0015] FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the CD box of the present
invention, wherein the first and the second body parts are closed
together;
[0016] FIG. 5 is a sectional side view showing an engaging hook of
the present invention;
[0017] FIG. 6 is similar to FIG. 5, but a thin CD sleeve is mounted
therein;
[0018] FIG. 7 is similar to FIG. 5, but a thin CD sleeve is slipped
in against a bevel surface.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
[0019] Referring to FIGS. 3 and 4, the structure of the CD box of
the present invention has therein an elongate connecting plate 11
which is provided with two blocks 111 on its two ends and has on
its two lateral sides a first body part 121 and a second body part
122 respectively. By virtue that the first body part 121 is not
connected with the connecting plate 11, three sides of it form
stepped walls 123; and by virtue that the second body part 122 is
not connected with the connecting plate 11, three sides of it form
stepped walls 124, when the first and the second body parts 121,
122 are closed together, such as is shown in FIG. 4, a closed box
is formed, a thin CD sleeve 20 having a CD therein thus is
protected.
[0020] The connecting plate 11 is formed to have in the middle
thereof a pair of engaging hooks 13 extending upwardly for slipping
thereover of and for fixing round holes 21 on an edge of the thin
CD sleeve 20. The connecting plate 11 is formed to have elongate
slots 14 at the positions in corresponding to those of the engaging
hooks 13.
[0021] Referring to FIG. 5 showing a sectional side view of an
engaging hook 13, one end of the engaging hook 13 has a connecting
end 131 extending upwardly out of the connecting plate 11; the
other end of the engaging hook 13 is an open tailing end 132;
wherein the open tailing end 132 extends down over the upper
surface of the connecting plate 11 into an elongate slot 14. By the
fact that the open tailing end 132 extends over the upper surface
of the connecting plate 11, so that a round hole 21 on the thin CD
sleeve 20 can not slip off the open tailing end 132, this is shown
in FIG. 6.
[0022] In order that the round hole 21 of the thin CD sleeve 20 can
be slipped over the engaging hook 13 more easily, an outer lateral
side of the open tailing end 132 of the engaging hook 13 is formed
to have a bottom bevel surface 133, referring to FIG. 5, the
uppermost position of the bevel surface 133 is at about the upper
surface of the connecting plate 11, and is most preferably higher
than the upper surface, as shown in FIG. 7, in order that the round
hole 21 on the thin CD sleeve 20 can be slipped over the engaging
hook 13 directly.
[0023] Certainly, in order to render the thin CD sleeve 20 able to
slip off the engaging hook 13, the lowermost position of the
engaging hook 13 is at about 1/2 height of the connecting plate 11,
so that the thin CD sleeves can be moved out conveniently.
[0024] The embodiment stated above discloses that the present
invention is used to mount the thin CD sleeve 20, the CD box of the
present invention is of the specification of 152 mm.times.139
mm.times.25 mm, such thickness can afford loading 12 pieces of CDs;
the CD box of the present invention can also be of the
specification of 152 mm.times.256 mm.times.25 mm.
[0025] In conclusion, by having the designing of the open tailing
end of the engaging hook, so that the thin CD sleeve of the present
invention can be very easily mounted in the CD box, and the thin CD
sleeve can be firmly restrained on the engaging hook after mounting
without slipping off, this is evidently improved upon the
conventional structure.
[0026] My invention is to be construed as including all
modifications and variations falling within the scope of the
appended claims.
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